Intel Core i3-10105F vs Intel Core i5-10500H

Core i3-10105F vs Core i5-10500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10500H beats the Core i3-10105F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-10105F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-10500H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-10105F that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10105F. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-10105F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10500H. Despite this, the Core i5-10500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10500H outputs less heat than Core i3-10105F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-10105F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.